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Google Criticizes Aussie Censorship

As the Australian censorship plans progress the international community has increasingly begun to weigh in on the situation. Australia’s main reason for launching the content filtering efforts has been to allegedly put a kibosh to the growing online casino gambling industry in Australia. That’s just one part of the situation though because the content filtering has now grown far beyond the online casinos and includes child pornography and other designated moral issues that he government feels it has the right to censor out of the general public. Google though is not the biggest fan of internet censorship in any form and has publicly released a statement of criticism specifically aimed at the Aussie censorship plans.

This is not a particularly new move for Google; the company has taken on China as of late about precisely the same issue. The key difference here though, is that China is known for this type of tight control and it’s little surprise that the government wants stronger controls and filtering to block out the online casinos as well as international news. Australia though is a whole other situation and Google has several key criticism related to the planned filtering, one of the more minor ones being user access speed. With a large list of filtered Web sites the search giant notes that the speed of the internet will slow considerably.

That’s just the most minor of the points though, Google fears that content filtering will give Aussies a false sense of security, assuming that the online casinos and porn are blocked when, in actuality, it’s inevitable that something is going to slip through. Additionally, as has been noted internationally, there is a fear that this is just a first step on a slipper slope of content censorship of all kinds in the country.